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They seemed to be moving more easily and rapidly, their spirits were rising with the stimulus of cold and motion, when suddenly their leader halted. "It's no use, boys. It can't be done! This is no blizzard, but a regular two days' snifter! It's no longer meltin', but packin' and driftin' now. Even if we get over the divide, we're sure to be blocked up in the pass." It was true!
The men shook hands. A third brandy snifter was brought and a gentleman's potation was poured for the colonel. "Ed," said Captain Lacey as soon as his fellow officer had inhaled a goodly lungful of the heady fumes, "do you remember you were telling me a couple of years ago about some test you were in on out in the Mojave Desert?" Colonel Dower frowned. "Test? Something to do with cars?"
But Black Feather, he'd come over to Dick Stocton's an' linger 'round the bar'ls of Valley Tan, an' take a chance on stealin' a snifter or two while Stocton's busy. "At last Stocton gets tired an' allows he'll lay for Black Feather.
"But my pa you should have known my pa!" Aurora's face brightened immensely, and Gerald suspected that it was like him she looked when she screwed her lips to one side in a manner humorously suggesting a pipe at the corner of her mouth, and said in a voice not her own, "Golly, Nell, can't you whistle for a snifter?" He could almost see a sailor's chin-whiskers.
I will ring for some whiskey and water if you care for a snifter." "I beg to be excused," replied Jawkins, deprecatingly. "You American gentlemen must have the constitutions of horses; you seem to be able to smoke and take 'snifters, as you drolly call them, at all hours, but I really cannot do it, you know. Do you find things to suit you here, Mr. Windsor?
This done, Tom brought forth a bottle of whisky. "Here," said he, "take a snifter. It'll do you good." Jerry eyed the bottle with frank astonishment before he exclaimed: "Why, I didn't know you was a drinkin' man. You been hidin' a secret vice from me?" "No. And I'm not a drinking man. I brought it along for you. I er that cough of yours used to worry me, so " "Pshaw! I cough easy. You know that."
Wullie Hulliby gat some when he was up wi' his lambs, an' he said that, after the first snifter, he grat for days. It maun be graund!" Ralph promised, with gladness to find some way of easing his load of debt to Jock. "But, Jock," urged Ralph, "ye need not do that. I was born and brought up in Edinburgh!"
But on the morrow all those telegrams started coming in, and I confess that for twenty-four hours I didn't give the poor chap a thought, having problems of my own to contend with. The first of the telegram arrived shortly after noon, and Jeeves brought it in with the before-luncheon snifter.
The trader's people said he stabled his mule; introduced himself as "Bennett's mozo me," and "sat into" the game then in progress as though long accustomed; showing silver, mainly Mexican, the only credentials the players required. At sunset he quit, easy winner, and went without taking so much as a "snifter."
One man says the first thing you need if you're going fishing is a good "snort" of whisky; another says that a good "snifter" is the very thing; and the others agree that no man can fish properly without "a horn," or a "bracer" or an "eye-opener." Each man really decides that he himself won't take any. But he feels that, in a collective sense, the "boys" need it. So it was with us.
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